Don't force me to use my right fist.

Based on his understanding of Kikyo, it was clear that she wouldn't care much about lifespan. Eternal life might be attractive to others, but for Kikyo, a priestess whose heart could only be described as pure and noble, it was essentially a completely negative state.

Sawa would never believe that she would change so much for something like this that she would cease to be human.

"I just want to know, is the Kikyo they're talking about really the one I know?"

After a moment of stunned silence, Saya finally remembered that there was someone in the know who had been working in Hell all along. He looked at Enma Ai with a puzzled expression, scratched his head, and asked.

But Ai responded to Sōyū with a nod, her expressionless face blank.

As someone who lived in the same era as Kikyo, and even in the end it was Saya who entrusted her to Kikyo, Ai was arguably the person who understood her best, without exception.

Having lived with her for a thousand years, she naturally knew how much that priestess had sacrificed for this world, and that the original ruler of this hell should have been Kikyo, not the Three-Eyed One.

"Sigh~"

Kosuke truly didn't know the intricate story behind it all; he just felt inexplicably melancholy about meeting this old friend from a thousand years ago.

The girl he kindly saved became the Hell Girl. What will become of Kikyo, who already possessed immense and unique spiritual power, over the past thousand years?

"Is she still human? How did she end up in a place like this to become a shrine maiden?"

Sawa was momentarily at a loss for words. This was hell, after all, and according to Ai, it was inhabited entirely by demons. How could she, a priestess responsible for exorcising demons, be involved with this place?

"Am I pretty much the same guy who ended up with this group of guys?"

Ai pointed to herself. Her identity as Hell Girl granted her almost eternal life, but neither the power she used nor her current essence had anything to do with monsters.

As for how to explain what happened in hell to Zuoyou, it's not something that can be explained in a short time. Fortunately, we'll be able to meet the person in question soon, and then we can explain it to him.

"I'm getting more and more curious about what exactly happened. I originally thought Hell Communication was just a simple curse-like thing, but how come it's involving a bunch of familiar people?"

Sawa twitched his lips, unsure where to even begin his吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical commentary). "You can't escape the connection."

The three-eyed spider, who hadn't said much until now, turned around and spoke to Saya in a strange tone.

Chapter 671 The Corpse

"It's inextricably linked to me?"

Saya thought and thought, but she couldn't fathom how someone who had only been in this world for a little over a month could have influenced a hell that had existed for countless years. Perhaps her previous time travel had affected the birth of a new hell, but to blame the Hell Correspondence on herself seemed like a forced attempt to shift the blame. Yet, even with such a statement, when spoken to Shiki, who was usually most intolerant of lies, she showed no reaction, as if she were listening to the truth.

Even Ai, who had been nestled beside Saya, silently looked away after hearing the story, unable to meet Saya's gaze.

You'll understand soon enough.

The Three-Eyed Spider didn't explain anything further, but simply led Saya away from the market filled with the smell of alcohol and arrived at a shrine that was even more out of place in hell.

It would be one thing if there were a town in hell, but for a shrine dedicated to a god to be located in a place like hell, it can only be described as ironic.

What surprised Sawa even more was that inside this shrine, he saw for the first time another plant growing in this hellish place where it seemed only the spider lily existed.

Unlike the trees that Zuo You forcibly planted later, those trees that seemed to block out the sky gave him a strange sense of familiarity.

This should be the tree in the Higurashi Shrine where Kikyo used to live, the one that sealed Inuyasha, right? A cup of hot tea was placed in front of him. After many years, Sōyu didn't feel that sense of reunion with her.

As for Saga, he is essentially someone who traveled back in time. The thousand years in between were not a real experience for him. To put it bluntly, for him, being separated from Kikyo was really only a few days.

He was puzzled as to why Kikyo was looking at him like that.

"Since you've come all this way, it proves that Shiraori has lost."

Kikyo, gesturing for Saga and the others to sit down, spoke with the same cool and intellectual tone as when Saga first met her, as if time had left no trace on her.

Upon hearing these words, the three-eyed spider visibly showed an embarrassed expression. Even if what he said was true, it was still far too harsh.

The person involved is still here, can't we at least show her some respect?

"I think this should be a matter for you and Shiki to discuss. How did I end up being the main character? That's not fair, is it? I'm just here to watch the show. You can't force me into this mess just because I know you all, can you?"

With a helpless sigh, Sawa had truly come to New Hell with the mindset of watching a show unfold, and he simply couldn't understand how things had developed to this point.

When Shiki heard Saya mention her name, she glanced at him dismissively and continued sipping her hot tea, as if she were the one who had come to watch the show.

After hearing what Saya said, Kikyo shook her head unexpectedly. Without explaining anything further to Saya, she got up and went to the large tree in the center of the shrine.

After turning around and exchanging a glance with the three-eyed spider, Kikyo received confirmation from her before a peculiar fluctuation of spiritual energy flashed from her palm.

She had been waiting for this moment for many years, and had long anticipated that Sōyū would come here sooner or later, but she hadn't expected it to take so long.

With a touch of melancholy and nostalgia, Kikyo shook her head and placed her hand directly on the trunk of the towering tree.

After a dazzling flash of light, something that Saya never expected appeared in front of him.

He admitted that he had been shocked enough that day, but compared to this, everything else was insignificant.

Moreover, Saya can guarantee that this corpse is 100% related to him and is not something fabricated by someone else.

It's worth noting that if what's sealed on this tree is his current form, it could be explained as something that can be imitated.

But Zuo You is certain that, apart from Zuo Mo, who is still fast asleep at home, no one else knows what he looks like, his body is a blocky, mosaic-like shape.

That girl would never betray him.

Pointing his finger at the body that was exactly the same as his own in the Minecraft world, Zuoyou finally understood why the Three-Eyed Spider said that he would understand once he saw it.

Whether judging from their aura or from other angles, aside from the fact that Saiyu is clearly in his normal human form while the corpse is in its cube-shaped form, even Saiyu himself has to admit that if he saw the corpse, he would absolutely believe it was him. But this makes things even stranger.

Saku tapped his head, which was throbbing from his intense thinking, with his palm. He couldn't understand why such a thing would be sealed in a place like Hell.

Crucially, all the information pointed to him, yet he, as the person involved,...

There is no intelligence whatsoever.

"Wait a minute, even so, this has nothing to do with Hell Correspondence, right? Although this does look like me, what can a corpse do?"

Having forced himself to calm down, Saya rubbed his head and looked at Kikyo and the Three-Eyed Spider, who had remained silent and were just watching him. "It's just a corpse," he thought, "frankly, it doesn't really have much to do with hell, does it?"

"Why don't you go up and check it carefully yourself? It's very simple. Just put your hand on it, and I think you won't need me to explain it to you."

The three-eyed spider sneered, as if it had already given up entirely.

As Saku placed his hand on the corpse as she instructed, a command that appeared before him made him instantly understand everything.

Chapter 672 I still can't do it.

Saga is very familiar with this command.

It's fair to say that if he had had such a command in the Minecraft world back then, he wouldn't have been locked up there for so many years.

To beat the game all the way to the Ender Dragon, it probably only takes a little effort, less than three minutes.

To be honest, the OP privileges are even higher than those in Creative Mode.

If Creative Mode can be compared to a god, then the OP privileges are probably comparable to those of a native god, and even have an absolutely dominant position over ordinary Creative Mode players.

"Don't tell me that someone here has already entered their name."

Saga was certain that no one else besides him knew what this command meant, but since Kikyo had already put this in front of him, who knew what kind of trouble might arise.

Kikyo maintained her somewhat aloof expression, but her gaze shifted to the Three-Eyed Spider beside her. Saya followed her gaze, and combining it with the Three-Eyed Spider's earlier riddle-like words, he had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

So, the gods of this new hell are actually, in a sense, just power-hungry dogs? "Believe in the true source?"

Zuoyou knew that some server operators bore certain responsibilities, but why would something that came up with Hell Communication look exactly like his own character in Minecraft?

"In a sense, that's true. Moreover, it can't be called a corpse; it's just lost consciousness."

The Three-Eyed Spider did not refute Zuoyou's conjecture, but instead looked somewhat solemnly at the cube-shaped figure leaning quietly against the tree.

"If no one had come to take responsibility for all of this, then this power would have awakened this body. Even without consciousness, the power to dominate the entire new hell would have deprived those monsters of their last means of survival."

It was precisely because of this that she ultimately had no choice but to accept the so-called task of ruling the new hell. Even she was well aware that the so-called hell communication had huge problems and hidden dangers. It could even be said that it not only failed to stop the occurrence of resentment, but also fostered new resentment.

Even so, she had no other solutions at the time.

Sōyū said that she was just a weak little spider that could be crushed with one hand back then. How did she grow into a god with enormous divine power? You have to know that even if she was born a god, the speed of her growth would definitely not be optimistic.

Furthermore, Saya knew that the three-eyed spider in front of her definitely didn't understand how to use this power. She probably just wanted to suppress it with the power that her authority granted her, otherwise she wouldn't have been defeated by someone like Saya.

If it were Zuoyou himself logging in, a mere player who only enabled cheat mode would dare to act recklessly in the face of OP privileges; they probably really don't know what death means.

Of course, this is not entirely the Three-Eyed Spider's fault. After all, even if she is a god, she is a god from another world. It is indeed a bit difficult for her to bring up a command bar and input commands.

Once a user loses the ability to input commands, they are essentially no different from a player who has cheated. Without the means to attack, their actual threat level drops to that.

Now that the matter of how the Three-Eyed Spider became the ruler of Hell has finally been figured out, Sōyū still doesn't understand why he is here, nor why this body and the commands attached to it are there.

When Saga's questioning gaze fell upon Kikyo, she seemed to understand what he was about to ask and took the initiative to remove his hand from her body.

"This body was found in that dry well after you left the shrine. You know very well that this is your body, don't you?"

Kikyo stood beneath the large tree, her voice tinged with nostalgia.

Kikyo glanced at Saku, as if shifting the blame for what happened when this body first appeared onto him, and shook her head.

"The immense malice flowing from this body covered the entire neon. By the time I realized it, it had become like this, as if nothing had happened. The shrine had separated from the world, and it had also turned me and love into what we are now, losing our right to be human."

A slightly resentful gaze fell upon Saku. Even a good-natured priestess like Kikyo, after enduring such suffering, couldn't completely forgive Saku.

In other words, someone who's tainted their feelings by love would see it as a blessing from heaven, a gift that allows her to stay with Saga and Yuuki forever. Kikyo, on the other hand, doesn't have that kind of love-struck mind.

"But I really didn't leave anything in that well. This thing is indeed some form of me, but you can't blame me just because it looks like me, can you?"

When he said this, Saya himself felt a little unsure of himself. He wouldn't believe it if he said that this had nothing to do with him.

It's true that you should avoid things that are time-related; who knows what kind of bugs they might cause.

But one thing is very clear about Sawa.

Chu's point is that even if this thing is related to him, it is definitely not his own idea.

Just kidding, if he could just casually give out OPs to others, he wouldn't have been blasted back a thousand years by the power of so many gods. whl

"But you have to admit it, this body is yours, isn't it?"

Seasons, who had been observing all along, suddenly spoke up, saying something that hit the nail on the head.

Chapter 673 Nobody said that blocky people aren't from another world

"No one doubts that you left this thing there, but you yourself have said that it's definitely related to you, isn't it?"

Shiki added, a strange light flashing in her eyes as she looked at Saya.